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 Sounrs 863 iSjp : Senate Ex., 36 Cong., i sess., Vol. I., No. 2, pt. i. i860: None. 7. Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States (Washington, 1S61). — Beginning with 1861, an annual volume or volumes containing important extracts from diplomatic correspondence of the preceding twelve months has been sent to Congress with the President's annual message. This series is the standard collection for all diplomatic affairs since 1861. One volume has appeared in each year, except as follows: 1863, two volumes; 1864, four volumes; 1S65, four volumes; 1S66, three volumes; 1867, two volumes; 1868, two volumes; 1S69, none published; 1872, six volumes; 1873, three volumes; 1S75, two volumes; 18S8, two volumes; 1894, three vol- umes ; 1895, two volumes. There should also be mentioned the following series : United States Consular Reports (Washington, 1880- ). — Since 18S0 the State Department has published a series of reports from foreign consuls on a great variety of subjects, chiefly commercial. They of course contain little or no material on diplomatic relations. A list of these reports to 1890 is printed in John G. Ames, Finding List, at p. 100. E. Foreign Official Correspondence. On the colonial period the only available and useful collections are : Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America and West Indies, 7 vols., (London, i860- ). — This series, still in progress, has now reached the year 1689. It states the substance of papers and prints some ex- tracts. It is of the greatest service in the study of diplomacy relating to the colonies. E. B. O'Callaghan and Berthold Fernow, editors. Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of Nero York, 15 vols., (Albany, 1856- 18S7). — Contains many pieces on the relations of the French and English colonies. On the federal period there are three series of foreign annual publi- cations of state papers, intended primarily for the use of diplomats and consuls of the respective countries. Archives Diplomatiqiics, Recueil de Diplomatic et d'' Histoire, 70 vols, to 1899 (Paris, 1861- ). — All in French or translated into French. Many treaties and other documents of periods before 1861, some as far back as'A.D. 1400. '^ British and Foreign State Papers, compiled by the Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office (90 vols, to 1900, London, 181 2- ). — Contains treaties, constitutions and documents chiefly in English. Das Staatsarchiv : Sammlung der Qfficiellen Actenstiicke zur Ge- schichte der Gegenwart, 43 vols, to 1898 (Hamburg, 1861- ). — In English, French or German, as the case may be. The diplomatic correspondence of foreign countries is usually